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Murray · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1923

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£30,000 Lost. Gambled Away in Three Sir Edwin John Sentenced

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 20 January 1923 · page 4

After a phenomenal run of luck at the gaming tables, Sir Edwin John, a well-known Anglo-Indian cotton mill owner (and a K.B.E.),…

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Helping the Police

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 26 January 1923 · page 32

The Acting Premier, Mr. Oakes, seated that, according to evidence given at the Central Police Court on Wednesday, between 500 and 360 men…

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Court Where Cupid Rules

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 26 January 1923 · page 28

America has a Cupid's Court. Thousands of people want to marry, but have ho agency to bring them together, thought Thos. Delker, publisher of the…

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Albury Police Court. Saturday, January 20. (Before Mr. W. A. Flynn, P.M.) Six Months for Imposition

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 26 January 1923 · page 3

Harold Cleary, aged 21, was charged with imposing upon Samuel Ralph Shipard by falsely representing that his sister had two broken legs, with a view…

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Corowa Police Court. Wednesday, January 25, 1923. (Before Messrs S.W THompson and A.c Leslie,J.P) False Pretences

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 26 January 1923 · page 5

Chas, Gordaon Mitchell, on Demand charged with obtaining the sum of [?]from Gregory kettle, Royal Hotel, Corowa, by Means of a Valueless cheque,…

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"2000 Years in Gaol." (Published by Arrangement). Prohibition Absurdities

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 30 January 1923 · page 4

According to recent cablegrams from Washington to Australia the Department of Justice has announced that violators of the prohibition laws, brought…

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Corowa Police Court. Monday, January 27, 1923. (Before Messts. J. H. Oswald and C. R. Taylor, Js.P.)

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 30 January 1923 · page 3

Poter O'Brien, alias Patrick Byrnes, was charged with stealing a gold mounted fountain pun, valued at 326, the property of Percy Bell, of the…

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Balranald Quarterly Licensing Court

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 31 January 1923 · page 2

(J. B. Gibson Esq., Chairman and Licensing Magistrate; George Nield Esq., Member; Collingwood Sogdy, Member)…

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Albury Police Court. Monday, January 29. (Before Mr. W. A. Flynn, P.M.) Tuesday, January 30. (Before Mr. W. A. Flynn, P.M.) Warrant Issued for Girl's Arrest

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 February 1923 · page 45

A charge was read against Elsie Taylor, a girl employed by Mrs. A. A. Burt, Olive-street, Albury, of passing a valueless cheque, purporting to have…

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Corowa Licencing Court. Thursday, February I, 1923. (Before Messrs. A. C. Leslie and C. R. Taylor, Js.P.)

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 2 February 1923 · page 5

A transfer of the license of the Albion Hotel, Corowa, was granted from M.J. Dillon to Johanna Connors, of Wangaratta…

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Alleged Horse Stealing. From a Carrathool Grazier

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 6 February 1923 · page 4

At the Wodonga Police Court, on the 18th January, George Ross, on remand, was charged with stealing two horses and a saddle and bridle, the property…

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Corowa Police Court. Wednesday, February 7, 1923. (Before Mr. W. A. Flyan, P.M.

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 9 February 1923 · page 5

Pastures Protection Board versus Wm. Roe for being in charge of 135 sheep travelling from Narrow Pal[?]s Without a permit…

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Lady Reporters in Court

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 9 February 1923 · page 32

The presence of a lady stenographer in the Melbourne Criminal Court in the place usually occupied by a male shorthand reporter was viewed with…

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A Woman Judge of [?]Hio's Supreme Court

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 9 February 1923 · page 44

One of the notable incidents of a recent election in Ohio, U.S.A., was the [?] of the Ohio State Supreme Court…

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Corowa Shall Debts Court. (Before Mr. W. A. Flynn, P.M.)

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 9 February 1923 · page 5

George Azzi versus Jas. Qulalan, Jas. Quintin garnishee. This was on an application for a garnishee order. The garnishee appeared and stated that he…

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Later Messages. Another Reprisal Murder. President's Brother-in-law Shot

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 13 February 1923 · page 3

Dr. Thomas O'Higgins, brother of the Minister of Home Affairs and brother-in-law of Mr Healy, has been shot dead at his home, Maryborough,…

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The Irish Problem Reported Belfast Plots. The Police Make Raids. Number of Irregulars Surrender to the Free State

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 13 February 1923 · page 2

In connection with a Belfast plot, the police have carried cat a series of raids in the Sinn Fein quarter and side a number of arrests…

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A Kensington Assault. a Woman the Victim

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 16 February 1923 · page 1

Doris Rosenburg was walking along a street at Kensington, when she was attacked, without warning, by a man, who felled her with a blow and then…

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Albury Police Court. Monday, February 12. (Before. Mr. W. A. Flynn, P.M.)

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 16 February 1923 · page 30

Edith Carter was charged with having committed a breach of the conditions of a licence under the Inebriates Act on February 5, in Smollett-street…

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Later Cables. German Population's Growing Effervescence. Police to be Disarmed

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 16 February 1923 · page 2

In consequence of the growing effervescence of the population, especially at Bochum, Castraphene and Recklinghausen the French have…

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